The Index
Shipped products, working prototypes, tools I run on my own machine, and one research artifact that concluded against me. Nothing here is inflated — if something has no users, it says so.
01 · Freight & AI Automation
Local-first AI that runs inside a real operations team — no cloud, no per-token bill, a human always clicks send.
A luxury super-app study: five product surfaces — retail, stays, cinema, dining, motors — unified under one design system and one faceted search engine. 1,910 items, 63 filters, live facet counts that recompute against every other filter, and shareable URL state. No framework, no build step, no third-party requests; every cover is generated SVG. All catalogue content is fictional demo data.
AI intake, billing and accounts-receivable automation built during my internship at a freight brokerage. Reads carrier messages, drafts the reply, and clears the back office — 18 finance workflows, 77 passing tests, entirely on local models.
The HwyHaul systems productized for small brokerages: an AI back-office clerk that reads the billing and AR inbox and drafts every reply on a local model. No API fees, and the data never leaves the building. Founding-client pilots are open.
A flat-fee, student-run campus food delivery concept for SJSU: nearby restaurants on one dark map, delivered by fellow students, with a courier jobs board. Designed and prototyped as an interactive demo, never operated.
02 · Markets & Quant
Built with real engineering discipline and validated adversarially. None of it is trading real money, and I explain exactly why.
A CLI that scans a watchlist for anchored-VWAP, VCP and gap setups, plus a no-lookahead backtest engine — and then the adversarial audit I ran to break my own +0.23R headline result. It broke. Verdict: marginal, don't size up.
An execution engine where the strategy is forty lines and everything else is crash-safety: deterministic order IDs, a SQLite journal claimed before every broker call, linked exits, ownership boundaries, and idempotent reconciliation. 48 tests. No live capital.
An R-multiple trade journal that runs in the browser: expectancy, win rate, profit factor and an equity curve, computed on-device. No account, no server, no data leaving your phone. Install it straight from Safari.
Trade-journal analytics as a web app: import an R-multiple journal CSV and get expectancy, drawdown, per-setup edge and a plain-English verdict. Analytics on your own history only — no broker credentials, no advice.
A Python toolkit for OHLC breakout and reversal analysis — the earlier research line that fed into the walk-forward harness above. Runs locally, not published as a product.
03 · Startup Prototypes
Working end-to-end on my machine with tests green in CI. No users, no revenue, no public launch yet — that's the honest state.
Raw event footage in, finished 9:16 highlight reel out. Scene detection finds the moments, audio-energy analysis confirms them, ffmpeg renders vertical at social loudness. Zero API keys, zero Python dependencies, plus a local web studio.
A map of reported trash plus a quantified "world fixed" meter — clean a pin, log an eco action, watch kg of waste and CO₂e climb. Privacy designed in at the schema: no user GPS stored, coordinates rounded, hazards are report-only.
A Twitter alternative with the outrage machinery removed: chronological only, no vanity metrics, no quote-posts, no verification hierarchy. Posts are proof of work. Working single-player prototype.
04 · Personal Tools
Small, offline, installable. Built because I needed them daily — free for anyone who wants them.
A daily weight tracker with a 7-day trend line, a goal line and streaks. The tool behind my documented 260→200 lb cut. Everything stays on-device.
A daily execution checklist that resets every morning and tracks a 100% streak. Ship the list, every day. No accounts, no sync, no tracking.
A phone helper for older adults: four huge buttons, guides that give one instruction per screen, a scam checklist that ends in "do not send — call your person," and tap-to-call trusted contacts. High contrast, adjustable text, no accounts.
A zero-dependency security scanner for startup codebases: secrets, dependency CVEs via OSV.dev, 34 misconfiguration rules, license risk, git-history leaks, SBOM export and an 18-point readiness score. MIT licensed.
My personal operations dashboard: a local Next.js app over SQLite that keeps internship applications, deadlines, trackers and daily execution in one place. Runs on localhost, for an audience of one.
Built and maintain sventclub.org, the front door for the Silicon Valley Entrepreneurship Club — events, sponsors and the member funnel. Part of the push that drove +40% engagement and landed 4 sponsors.
Install the web apps on your phone
Android or desktop: use your browser's Install app option. Everything is local — no accounts, no tracking, no server.
05 · Brand & Commerce
The commercial side: a streetwear label, digital products, and services — all designed, built and shipped solo.
A bilingual Arabic–English streetwear label built in public. Drop 001 is six pieces with a full brand kit and print-ready artwork; the storefront is live and taking waitlist signups ahead of fulfilment going online.
Automation software, playbooks and premium template packs from $19 — including the Swing Trading Operating System course and the FreightDesk install. Six products, all written and designed by me.
A single-product apparel concept: 450+ GSM heavyweight hoodies, minimal design, no loud logos. A full brand and landing-page build exploring how far one product can carry a label.
Twelve black-and-gold template packs: investor pitch deck, a 60-layout slide library, client proposal and SOW, a freight-broker ops pack, and brand guidelines. Designed to be used, not admired.
A productized service: a complete LinkedIn profile rewrite in 48 hours — recruiter-stopping headline, rebuilt About section, metric-first bullets and keyword mapping.
My brand-collaboration one-pager: audience stats, the 260→200 lb transformation story, and the partnership options I offer. The page I send instead of a PDF.
06 · Research
CS education research at the SJSU CSEd Research Lab under Dr. Ethel Tshukudu — IRB-approved, mixed-methods, published as a sophomore.
Co-authored a mixed-methods study with 60 participants on how bilingual programming environments lower the barrier for non-native English speakers learning CS. SIGCSE TS 2026, ACM Digital Library.
A free 8-week bilingual intro-CS program for English-learner high schoolers, built directly out of the bilingual-coding research above. Curriculum, volunteer handbook and partnership kit are written and public; a signed school partner and a first cohort are next — stated honestly on the page itself.
Graph-augmented, retrieval-oriented LLMs that model a CS curriculum as a knowledge graph and adapt the learning path per student. Second accepted SIGCSE TS 2026 artifact from the same lab.
Built through IBM SkillsBuild: an IBM Watson–powered sentiment engine scoring equities from live market news — 78% directional accuracy across 50+ sources ingested daily, cutting manual research time by 60%.
A note on repos. Several of these live in private repositories — the trading work, the startup prototypes, and my personal ops dashboard. I'm happy to walk through any of them on a call or share access on request. Client and employer work is not published at all.
FAQ
TradeLog, an R-multiple trading journal; Cut, a weight and body-recomposition tracker; Fire, a daily execution-ritual checklist; and GRAMPA, a big-button phone helper for older adults with step-by-step guides and scam protection. All four install as offline progressive web apps. The site also hosts free calculators for trading risk and freight brokerage, a visa planner, and an application tracker.
Neither. There is no signup and no backend. Once installed, the apps work fully offline and store data in your device's local browser storage.
Open the app in Safari on iOS and choose Share, then Add to Home Screen. On Android, open it in Chrome and choose Install app or Add to Home screen. They then launch like native apps and run offline.
No. There is no telemetry, no analytics on the app data, and no server to send it to. Everything stays on your device. Details are in the privacy policy at https://yusuf-gadelrab.github.io/privacy.html.
TradeLog, the swing screener and every trading-related tool linked here are educational and record-keeping tools only. Nothing on this page is financial, investment, tax or legal advice, or a recommendation to buy or sell any security. Trading carries substantial risk of loss, including your entire capital. Backtested and walk-forward figures shown here are hypothetical, do not represent live trading, and past performance does not guarantee future results.